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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.A

CHARLES FREDRICK BUTTERWORTH, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

. SLEEVE FOR coATs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,130I dated April l, 1884:.

Application filed March 16, 1883. (Nb model.)

To all whom it may concern.- p

Be it known that l, CHARLES F. BUTTER- WORTH, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Sleeves of Coats and other like Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a close, warm, and elastic fit for the sleeve of a coat or other like garment about the wrist of the wearer; and to this end the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference isto be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l represents a longitudinal section ofthe outer or hand end portion of a coatsleeve with attached. wristlet in accordance with 1ny invention, and Fig. 2 a partly` broken or sectional face view of the wristlet detached.

A in the drawings indicates the outer or turned-in portion of a coat-sleeve, and b its lining. C is the wristlet, arranged onthe insideof the sleeve, at some little distance from the outer end of the sleeve, and constructed to form a hollow fur band of annular shape, with a metal, rubber, or other spring, d, within it. Such elastic wristlet is attached to the coat-` sleeve by a strip, e, of cloth or other material, stitched ou its one edge, as at f, to the wristlet, and united atits opposite edge (interposed between the outer. material of the sleeve and its lining b) by a row of stitching, h, arranged to passthrough it and through the sleeve and its lining. By thus indirectly attaching the wristlet to the sleeve the hand isprevented from catching in the exposed end of the lining, or from puckering it when drawing thesleeve, with its attached wristlet, on or off.

lInstead of arranging the wristlet within the sleeve at some little distance from its outer end, it might be arranged at the extremeend thereof.` In either case, however, it projects inward transversely to the sleeve, and is a permanent attachment thereto in close connection with the sleeve, sothat no cold air can pass up between it and the sleeve, while its elastic construction causes it to closely hug the Wrist without restricting the free motion ofthe hand, all of which will be found very conducive to comfort in driving during cold weather.

I am aware that mut'fs have been formed or provided with elastic fur bands at the ends of the openings through them, but such muffs are separate articles to be worn by or held by the hands, which are accordingly prevented from being otherwise used, and theyl form no part of a garment fitting the person; and I am also aware that sleeves and oversleeves have been provided with attachments at their lower ends having elastic in them, to cause them to fit closely around the wrist to exclude the air, andI therefore do not claim such inventions; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i The combination, with an ordinary coatsleeve, of the elastic wrist-let C, consisting of a hollow annular fur band and a spring, d, within it, and the securing-strip e, having one edge secured to the wristlet and its other edge interposed between the turned-in portion of the sleeve and its lining, and the whole secured together and to the outer portion of the sleeve, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHARLES FREDRICK BUTTERWORTH.

Witnesses:

HENRY BROUGETON, JAMEs R. ToEEANcE, 

